ChicagoTribune.com – By Michael Higgins – Tribune reporter
A transgender woman who wants to change her legal name from “Donald” to “Daunn” asked the state Supreme Court Thursday to order Will County’s chief judge to waive about $450 in court fees because of her low income.
The legal filing by Daunn Turner, 52, of Lockport contended Will County Chief Judge Stephen White rejected the request by declaring, “I am not spending the county’s money on something like this.”
White told her the name change was “something that she wanted, not something that she needed,” the court filing said.